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GOP Fuzzy Math on Student Loans:
What are the Republicans protecting when the government can lend money at half the cost?
By Michael Kinsley
Published in the LA Times, September 15, 2007

Court: The Dead Cannot Escape Student Loans
By the blue nomad
Published by TPM Cafe, December 7, 2005


How Did Student Loans Get So Sleazy?
by Liz Pulliam Weston
Published in MSN Money, July 5, 2007

Student Loans and Bankruptcy:
The New Predatory Lenders

By Carmen Dellutri
Published by Bankruptcy Law Network, July 1, 2007

The Student-Loan Scam
Under a Republican Congress, For-Profit Lenders Pursued Their Own Interests - Often With The Help of Colleges
by Stephen Burd (CommonDreams.org-News Center)
Published in Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2007

Student Loan Slave
Student Loan Advocates and Volunteer Exchange
An Association Dedicated to Promoting and Protecting
the interests of Student Loan Borrowers

Student Loans Sow Seeds of Economic Ills
An Explosion in high-priced student loans haunts the US Economy
by Marcy Gordon, Associated Press
Oct 2007

The Widening College Loan Scandal
Kickbacks to universities that steer students to preferred lending companies are part of a wider pattern of shady dealing that reaches into the federal government.
Editorial, Published by The New York Times, April 8, 2007

Sallie Mae Not
aggressive tactics combined with unreceptiveness to complaints
by Catherine Tumber, The Boston Phoenix

Joe's Debt
Joe's Story, Joe's Debt Clock, Life in Debt: Raise Awareness Levels About the Predatory Practices of Private Student Loan Companies. Joes's Dream: My dream was over and I began a new chapter in my life, the debt chapter. Oct 2007

Generation Debt - Lender Kickbacks and Caribbean Vacations
Student Loans, crap jobs, massive debt loans, rising inequality, and how to fight back.
by Anya Kamenetz, Blogspot.com - Oct 24, 2006

Corrupt Colleges - Student Debt
Third World Nations Weighed Down by Debt
by Nicholas von Hoffman
The Nation - Howl - June 18, 2007

Lenders Misusing Student Database:
Improper Searches Raise Privacy Concerns

by Amit R. Paley
Published by Washington Post, April 15, 2007

The Student Borrower Bill of Rights Act (S. 3255)
Published by the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students

Monsters and Critics
- Democrats Press Student Loan Clean-Up Drive

For Graduates, Student Loans Turn Into An Albatross
by Chris Gaylord
- Christian Science Monitor - May 17, 2006

Stealing from Our Children:
Why You Should Be Outraged Over the Student Loan Scandal

by Robbie
Published by Associated Content, April 13, 2007

Inside Higher Ed
by Doug Lederman, October 30, 2007
- Fallout Over Student Loan Benefits Hits Illinois

Student Borrowers Often Victims of Serious Abuse
By Alan M. Collinge
Published in the Capital Times, Wisconsin, October 16, 2007

College Credit Fails Students
By Alan M. Collinge
Published in the LA Times, August 28, 2007

More Interest Relief on Student Loans Urged
By Tobi Cohen
Published in the Toronto Star, Canadian Press, November 4, 2007


 

Conflict by Davron
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Private Student Loans Crushing Graduates with Debt
by Ana M. Alaya
Published in Newhouse News Services, 2007

NPR: Cuomo States Will Pursue Student Loan Fiasco
by Libby Lewis
Published in NPR, 2007

I-Team: Predatory Student Loans
by John Mercure
Published in Todays TMJ4 Milwaukee, 2007

Cuomo: Student Loan Corruption Widespread
by News-Education
Published in USA Today, 2007

Attorney General Stuart Rabner of New Jersey
Issues Civil Subpoenas in College Loan Probe
by State of New Jersey-Dept of Law and Public Safety. Division of Consumer Affairs Investigating Allegations that Lenders have made Improper Payments to Promote Lending Programs.
Press Release: May 4, 2007

Student Loan Rules Get Tougher
by Tim Simmons
Published in News & Observer, June 26, 2007

Predatory Debt from the Not-For-Profit Student Loan Companies and Sallie Mae
by Alan Collinge
Published in Student Loan Justice

U.S. Suspends Lender Access to Borrower Database
by Doug Lederman
Published by Inside Higher Ed, April 18, 2007

Crushing Debt: Man who owed as much as $100,000 felt trapped by his ...
by Dave Newbart
Published in Chicago Sun-Times, Sept 24, 2007

Lender Bending
It's Time to Rein In the Student Loan Industry
The Phoenix, April 18, 2007 studentloans@phx.com

The Checkout: Getting Schooled on Student Loans
by Annys Shin
Washington Post: Business, Oct 25, 2007

Robert Reich's Blog
The Real Scandal of Student Loans
The emerging scandal over student loans is only the tip of the iceberg.
Robert Reich is the nations's 22nd Secretary of Labor and a professor of California at Berkeley.
Personal Journal - April 10, 2007

St. Petersburg Times
Federal Student Loan Borrowers are up to their eyeballs in debt.
by Helen Huntley


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